Create a Bootable Disk Using (DD Image) (Click the Disk Image Here to Select the File we Extracted before “pfSense-CE-memstick-2.3.1-RELEASE-i386.img file”

Create Extended Label and Icon Files

5. Installing Pfsense on your desired Machine.

Boot using USB to get to Pfsense Welcome Page and Press { 1 } on your Keyboard

Press { I } to beginning installer

Select { Accept these settings }

Select { Quick/Easy Install }

Select { OK }

Select { Standard Kernel }

Select { Reboot }

Enter n, because we are not setting up VLANS

In our case we used em0 as our wan interface, but you are able to set your wan to which ever interface you are most comfortable with, and this can be changed later.

Here we set the bge0 interface as the LAN interface, but like previously mentioned it can be changed.

Proceed by Selecting y and clicking enter

Now you should see your LAN interface display the default IP address for management 192.168.1.1, and your wan port by default will try to pull a dhcp ip like in our setup.

Plug an Ethernet cable onto your LAN port from your Pfsense machine and to your workstation. Once connected, make sure your machine is using the same subnet 192.168.1.x , and connect to the Pfsense webconfiguration page 192.168.1.1.

The default username is admin

The default password is pfsense

Use the Setup Wizard to configure your interfaces further to your liking and you should be golden.

Configure your Hostname, Domain, and DNS server settings.

Here you can configure your timezone and we chose America/New_York, since we are at the east coast.

In this page you are able to configure your wan interface’s IP configuration. In our case we have a static IP provided by our ISP, so we will configure our wan to use a static IP.

We have decided to leave RFC1918 Networks Blocked, because our WAN port will not connect to any private networks. And We left Block Bogon Networks checked.

Next We set our LAN IP Address to match 10.1.10.1. WARNING!!!! If you change your LAN IP Address from 192.168.1.1 to anything else, you will have to connect to the web configuration with the new LAN IP, instead of 192.168.1.1. In our case we are going to continue connecting to our Pfsense with 10.1.1.10 for future maintenance.

On this Page you can change the Admin Password to Login into the web configuration tool